Sophocles Journal #3

Sophocles establishes gender roles that actually contrast the man and woman. He shows how women should take a less intense/involved role in a relationship as we can see by Jocasta and Oedipus in a face to face argument that they both encounter. Oedipus asks Jocasta a bunch of questions which she answers as well as tries to figure out what has happened with Oedipus. Jocasta is what Sophocles portrays a perfect wife should be like, one who obeys and tells their husbands the truth. When both a man and woman talk to each other face to face, it seems as if their conversation consists of lots of facts and the point being made is clear, which shows that honesty and trust between a man and woman is fairly good. Sophocles seems to be upset about Oedipus' actions because he portrays Oedipus negatively because of the bad call he made in killing Laius as well as his attitude. Creon is seen as the perfect man because he takes the time to listen to reasonable thinking and he also believes that words are stronger than actions of doing things.